Raymond Butts
Experienced LPC focused on practical support
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Alaska, Missouri, Maine
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Raymond
Raymond Butts is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 30 years of clinical and educational experience. He draws on a long career in schools and community settings to provide calm, direct support for people facing stress, grief, addiction, mood concerns, and parenting challenges. Sessions focus on practical steps and steady listening rather than long lectures.
He speaks English and provides services to international clients from his Arizona practice. Raymond began his career as an elementary special education teacher in the early 1980s, then earned a Master of Education in Counselor Education in 1989 from the University of Arkansas.
Background and approach
He spent many years working in rural Alaska as a teacher, itinerant school counselor, and village school principal. That hands-on school experience shaped his straightforward, problem-focused style. After returning from Alaska, he worked as a kindergarten counselor in a busy center and later shifted into military and family life counseling beginning in 2009.
These roles expanded his work with crisis situations and caregiver stress. He combines client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral and solution-focused approaches. In practice Raymond tends to help people identify immediate steps they can try between sessions.
He emphasizes collaboration and keeps language plain so busy parents and caretakers can follow along. He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Licenses include AK LPC PCOP36 and MO LPC 2007014050.
His experience in schools, community settings, and military and family life counseling informs an accessible, experience-based approach.
Online approaches that focus on practical change
Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and understanding. The therapist follows the client's lead and helps people name what matters most. This approach is useful when someone needs a steady, empathic person to talk things through.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect feelings. It breaks problems into steps and teaches small changes people can try between sessions. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Raymond will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That means trying techniques, reviewing how they helped, and adjusting the plan together.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and varied needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions remove travel time, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit short check-ins or ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into family and work life while using methods that match each person's situation.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Alaska, Missouri, Maine, Arizona
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point